Human Trafficking

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MODERN Day

Slavery

Human trafficking is the illegal trade of human beings, mainly for the purposes of forced labor and sex trafficking. As the world's fastest growing criminal industry, it affects every nation across the globe. Every 30 seconds, someone becomes a victim of modern-day slavery.

This Faces of Human Trafficking:

Anyone can be a victim, survivors of this crime have very diverse backgrounds and experiences.

Learn more at the Office for Victims of Crime (OCV) website: http://ovc.gov/news/HumanTraffickingPreventionMonth/index.html

There are more slaves in the world today than at any other point in human history, with an estimated 27 million in bondage across the globe generating billions of dollars. Men, women, and children are being exploited for manual and sexual labor against their will.

HUMAN TRAFFICKING FUELS THE GROWTH OF ORGANIZED CRIME while UNDERMINING the HEALTH, SAFETY, SECURITY, AND BASIC NEEDS OF HUMANITY. IT IS THE FASTEST GROWING CRIME IN THE WORLD.

Sex Trafficking in the United States

Sex trafficking is a form of modern slavery that exists throughout the globe, including the united states.Violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion are used to force women, men and children to engage in commercial sex against their will.

Victims of trafficking include children (particularly runaways), immigrants, and members of other vulnerable groups who are forced into sex work. Trafficking thrives in big cities, where it is easy for victims to become lost in a larger law enforcement picture. even aggressive prosecutions are not necessarily enough to address the scourge of sex trafficking.